We all know smoking is bad for our health. Regardless of what substance is being smoked, it is universally known that inhaling smoke is bad for our health. Even if we dry out some broccoli and then grind it up and roll it into a cigarette, smoking it is unhealthy.

COPD Research

With all the research that’s been done over the years on the COPD diseases they still have not determined the cause of the progression of COPD. In case you don’t know, COPD is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and is an umbrella term that covers a family of diseases that includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis and more recently, asthma.

Why Does COPD Continue Progressing After the Patient Quits Smoking?

We assume the cause is due to smoking however, millions of people quit smoking and are subsequently diagnosed many years later with COPD. Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock on the popular TV and movie series, Star Trek, quit smoking and died from COPD 29 years later!

So, if smoking causes COPD, what is causing the progression of the disease years, and even decades, after the patient quits smoking? When I asked my mother’s Pulmonary Specialist why her emphysema was progressing 2 and a half years after she quit smoking, his response surprised me. He said,

That was the moment I decided I would research the “cause of the progression of COPD” until I either found the answers or my mother took her last breath! That began my 4 and a half-year research study that ended in a comprehensive understanding of WHY COPD progresses long after the patient quits smoking. My mother had been a smoker for 40 years and had just been diagnosed with emphysema. She was very scared.

2 Distinct Things are Happening When We Smoke

There are two distinct things going on when we smoke cigarettes. The first and most obvious is the inhaling of smoke from the lit tobacco in the cigarette. We know from common sense that inhaling smoke from anything that is burning is bad for our overall health and more specifically, our lung health.

The second, and until now, previously unknown cause of the progression of COPD is the inhaling of fungal spores that I believe are present on the tobacco during the growing phase, during the curing phase and also during the consumption phase, which is, of course, smoking the cigarette.

Blue Mold Growing on Tobacco in the Fields and is Not Discarded

It begins in the fields where the tobacco is growing. We know for a fact that blue mold is oftentimes present on the tobacco while it is growing in the fields. We also know it’s present on tobacco that is curing for processing and consumption. They apparently do not discard tobacco that is infected with blue mold so what tobacco do they discard? Are they visually inspecting the tobacco for fungi? It sure doesn’t sound like it!

If my assumptions are correct, the fungi that are growing on the tobacco in the fields make it into the cigarettes and we inhale active spores from that fungi into our lungs when we smoke. You see, the tobacco at the end of the cigarette is lit on fire. The fungal spores in this tobacco are consumed in fire. The smoke from the burning tobacco is then inhaled through the remaining unlit tobacco that I believe contains active fungal spores. So two things are occurring. We are inhaling smoke from the burning tobacco and inhaling active fungal spores from the fungi present on the tobacco.

Once in the lungs these spores are planted like a garden into a warm, moist environment with a plentiful blood supply which helps supply nutrients to and remove waste from the fungi keeping it alive and healthy. Now if the patient quits smoking, their lungs heal from the smoke inhalation and their body replaces every cell in their lungs over the next year and a half to two years. The problem is, the garden of fungi has been planted and is still growing!

Opportunistic Fungi vs Pathogenic Fungi

I believe the fungi that invades the lungs is an opportunistic fungi. Opportunistic fungi differ from pathogenic fungi in that they are not easily eradicated since they emulate human cells and can easily go undetected by the immune system. Most COPD patients have been given multiple prescriptions for antibiotics which kill 80% of our immune system, namely the probiotics. They also adapt to treatments very rapidly so any attempt at killing these fungi with say, an anti-fungal medication, is generally ineffective and futile, especially if this fungi has been growing in the patient’s lungs for 2 or 3 decades or even longer.

Alternative Treatments Eradicate the Opportunistic Fungi

Alternative treatments have been developed that constitute 6 protocols for eradicating the opportunistic fungi that I believe is causing the progression of COPD. But do they work?

As the old saying goes, “The proof is in the pudding.” If the progression of COPD is caused by an opportunistic fungi, and killing the opportunistic fungi is possible albeit, difficult, then what proof is there that these alternative treatments actually kill this fungi and reverse COPD in human patients?

By the time I began applying the alternative treatments from the 6 protocols I developed to my mother’s daily regimen, she had already deteriorated down to End Stage Emphysema weighing only 77 pounds, down from 103. She required 4 liters of continuous supplemental oxygen by that time and was gasping for air much of the time even on 4 liters. She could only eat a small portion of food, little more than a cup, before she would complain that if she ate another bite she would not be able to breathe!

My Mother’s Improvements Begin

After about 3 weeks on the alternative treatments I began noticing subtle improvements in her condition. She would walk into the kitchen each morning after I made coffee. She was usually gasping for air by the time she got there. After only 3 weeks of following these alternative treatments she appeared in the kitchen but was not gasping for air. It didn’t seem that she was in any distress at all!

Even though it was a tiny improvement, it was an improvement! Anyone who has this disease or is around someone who has it, knows the patient’s condition slowly worsens over time but never improves other than the temporary improvements you may see from using the prescribed medications.

Prescribed Medications for COPD

My complaints regarding the prescribed medications was that I could see temporary improvements from using the meds in the short-term but the next day her condition was back where it was the day before and probably a little bit worse with no permanent improvements resulting from using the medications. It was obvious to me that the disease was progressing in spite of the fact that my mother was taking all the prescribed medications which provided nothing more than temporary relief from the symptoms of COPD.

My Mother Recovers From COPD

These alternative treatments included a restrictive diet and a number of supplements, each one addressing one specific aspect of the disease from the perspective of killing the opportunistic fungi residing in the lungs that was causing the progression of COPD.

I kept my mother on the alternative treatments for 17 months until she had completely recovered regaining all of her lost weight and no longer requiring any supplemental oxygen! The opportunistic fungi had been eradicated. My mother carried her portable oxygen tank around with her for about a month after she recovered but never needed it.

I wrote a book detailing each step I took in reversing my mother’s emphysema, entitled, “How I Reversed My Mom’s Emphysema.” The book has sold in 37 countries and many thousands have reported a complete recovery.

It seems every time these people try to publicize the fact that they recovered from COPD and tell of the method and source of the information they used in accomplishing this recovery, they are met with internet trolls who try and force them to retract their statements and denounce the methods.

I can only assume these trolls are employed by someone who is not in favor of COPD patients recovering without the use of any prescription medications. If any of the COPD medications provided permanent improvements in the patient’s condition, I would help them promote it! The sad fact is, the only improvements I saw with my mother while she was taking these drugs were temporary improvements that completely disappeared by the next day!

“Common sense tells us that temporarily masking symptoms of a progressive disease is not a survivable solution!”

Why? Because the disease is continuing its progression unabated!

If you would like additional information on how I reversed my mom’s emphysema please visit the web site below. You will find the book, “How I Reversed My Mom’s Emphysema”which includes the diet I used as well as the supplements with a detailed description of why I used each one and what the improvements were in my mother’s condition after adding each one to her daily regimen. There is also a book that just covers the diet I used, “The New Menu That Began My Mother’s Recovery from COPD and Emphysema” which is the first 4 chapters of the main book.

You will also find information on our COPD Focus Group. Everyone in the Focus Group is improving! I have a gentleman who will most likely leave the group soon since he is nearly recovered. When he joined the group over a year ago he had just had a CT scan. His Radiologist had shown him on the CT scan that both of his lungs were full of scar tissue. The Radiologist explained that the scar tissue would be there forever.

Seven months after joining our COPD Focus Group he had another CT scan which showed ALL of the scar tissue was gone! This was the scar tissue that the Radiologist told him would be there forever and now, only 7 months later, it was gone! His last checkup showed that he had only a tiny bit of emphysema in one lung and that was all that was left.

His doctor at the VA had told him on a previous visit that she could not say that he was improving in his medical record because that was not allowed for COPD patients. All she could say was that he was stable. On a subsequent visit, after seeing how much he had improved and that his emphysema was nearly gone she decided she would go against protocol and say that he was greatly improved. I’m not sure what results the ramifications of her entry will cause. Only time will tell.

The COPD Focus Group provides one-on-one assistance to each member via weekly group sessions, text messages, emails and even phone calls. Each week a different aspect of the alternative treatments is covered in detail so each member gains a full and complete understanding of each step of the recovery process.

So, if what I’m saying here makes more sense than what have been told and you would like additional information, please visit our website at:

My mother was diagnosed with emphysema and COPD early in 2003. It was no surprise since she had smoked cigarettes for more than 40 years. I had worked in a hospital more than 20 years earlier and remembered the repeated admissions of these COPD patients. I remembered watching them deteriorate down to “skin and bones” until eventually I would not see them anymore. I assumed correctly that they had finally succumbed to the disease. COPD had sucked every bit of life from their body.

I was saddened thinking this would now happen to my mother. I retained some hope that in the 20+ years since I had worked for that hospital the pharmaceutical companies had developed medications and treatments that would cure this disease or at least, stop it from progressing further. My mother was immediately prescribed multiple medications and treatments including nebulizer treatments with albuterol sulfate and Pulmonary Rehabilitation twice a week. I didn’t ask the doctor if these drugs would stop the disease progression or even better, cure the disease. I think I was probably afraid of what the answer might be.

For the next 2+ years I made sure she took every COPD medication on time, every day. I made sure she did the 4 ordered nebulizer treatments with albuterol sulfate every day and I made sure she attended Pulmonary Rehab twice a week. She quit smoking the day of her diagnosis or soon after. I started researching emphysema and COPD immediately but did not find any good news for the first 8 or 9 months.

At the end of this period of more than 2 years she had deteriorated down to “End Stage Emphysema” or “Stage IV COPD.” After observing my mother all day, every day for this entire time I noticed that:
1. As her supplemental oxygen requirement increased, her meal size decreased.
2. As her meal size decreased, she lost weight.
3. It was obvious the disease was progressing as if she was still smoking and not taking any medications. In other words, the drugs were not having any effect on the continual disease progression. (i.e. They did not provide any lasting improvement in my mother’s condition but did temporarily mask the symptoms of the disease.)

When I started thinking about all these observations together it became painfully obvious that something was growing or proliferating in my mother’s lungs. I thought it might be some pathogen present in cigarette tobacco that was introduced into my mother’s lungs from smoking. The worst part was the doctors were totally oblivious to it, whatever it was. They were not acknowledging the presence of this pathogen or providing any treatment that would eliminate it. I realized I would need alternative solutions if I was going to help my mother survive this disease. These medications and treatments were obviously not going to provide any lasting improvement in my mother’s condition.

I asked one of my mother’s doctors why her emphysema and COPD were progressing so long after she had quit smoking. He told me that they (the doctors) did not know why emphysema and COPD continued progressing long after smoking cessation. All he knew was that the drugs would slow the progress of the disease.

After observing my mother and her deteriorating condition over more than two years I did not believe the drugs were doing anything other than temporarily masking symptoms. In my opinion, this was very little return for the more than $1200 in drug costs each month. I knew the drug companies and their investors were getting rich on these and other drugs and this would have been fine with me if their drugs were helping cure this disease or even stopping its progress but they were not doing either! My mother was dying right in front of me and I had no idea what I could do about it, so the research continued.

In total I spent more than 6500 hours researching emphysema, COPD and optimal health over more than 4 years. I read anything I could find that I thought might help my mother. I eventually found many prominent physicians and researchers that have been overshadowed by the enormous profits, power and influence of the pharmaceutical companies.

I had not previously realized that the pharmaceutical companies did not have one single drug that cured a disease! I did not realize the AMA received more than $500 million from the pharmaceutical industry every year. What is this money for anyway? You may want to think about that before agreeing to additional prescription drugs.

I eventually found Dr. Kenneth Hunter, a Microbiologist and Cancer Researcher who stated that cancer was a pathogen and that pathogens ate sugar. Dr. Hunter was removing all sugar and simple carbohydrates from his patients’ diets in his successful cancer research. Dr. Fred Pescatore, a New York City physician and author of “The Allergy and Asthma Cure.” Dr. Pescatore uses essentially the same diet in his 8-step cure for allergies and asthma while most doctors continue prescribing daily prescription medications for these illnesses ignoring Dr. Pescatore’s successful solution that does not require any medications.

I started my mother on this restrictive diet immediately. After a 2 week transition period we were strictly adhering to this diet. Amazingly, only two short weeks later my mother was already showing subtle signs of improvement! The significance of these improvements was that they were the only improvements she had shown since her diagnosis! In addition, the improvements were permanent and we built upon them daily. Seventeen months later my mother had completely recovered from emphysema and COPD. It took much more than just this restrictive diet however, the diet began the improvement most likely by starving the pathogen that causes emphysema and COPD disease progression. I know the doctors do not agree with this approach however, when the disease progression is approached from this perspective, improvements ensue almost immediately!

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My mother was diagnosed with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and Emphysema early in 2003. Early on, signs of the disease were not obvious except for the additional medications added to her growing list and the new nebulizer treatments each day. I made sure my mother took each medication as directed and did every nebulizer treatment. I took her to Pulmonary Rehab twice a week.

After more than two years of following doctors’ orders to the letter, my mother had deteriorated down to “End Stage.” She weighed only 77 pounds down from her normal body weight of 103 pounds. She required 4 liters of continuous supplemental oxygen and was still gasping for air most of the time. She could only sleep for about an hour before waking in the middle of an exacerbation. She could only eat about a cup of food at each meal. She knew if she ate more it would negatively affect her breathing.

What is Causing the Progression of Her Emphysema and COPD?

I asked her doctor why her emphysema and COPD were getting worse. After all, she had quit smoking more than two years earlier and I knew she had not smoked any cigarettes since. I expected a complicated medical explanation but what I got instead surprised me.

The Alternative COPD “Disease Progression Model” Hypothesis

I had been researching the disease since her diagnosis eventually compiling more than 6500 hours of research over more than 4 years. This research, coupled with daily observation of my mother’s deteriorating condition, prompted the development of a “disease progression model” hypothesis. It seemed to me that smoking had introduced a pathogen into my mother’s lungs that began proliferating immediately and continued proliferating slowly over her 40 years of smoking. Even though she had quit smoking, the pathogen continued proliferating and the disease continued progressing.

These Medications are Only Masking COPD Symptoms

None of the prescribed medications were developed for stopping the pathogen from proliferating since the pharmaceutical and medical industries did not even acknowledge the existence of this pathogen. They seemed more interested in the $1200 in medications they were selling my mother each month. It was very obvious that, at least early on, these medications provided one function and that was “masking symptoms.” The problem was that as soon as the medications wore off, my mother was right back where she was before taking the drug. I decided that I would use these medications for masking symptoms only. I would not rely on them for any lasting improvement in my mother’s condition since they did not provide it.

Applying the “Disease Progression Model” to My Mother’s Emphysema

Once I realized the prescribed medications were not developed for curing emphysema and COPD nor were they developed for stopping the progress of the disease, I realized alternative treatments were the only remaining hope for my mother. I was really surprised the doctors were satisfied with the “big mystery” scenario regarding the progression of emphysema and COPD. It didn’t seem the least bit logical to me but my new disease progression model did so I began applying it to my mother’s treatment.

First I changed her diet to one that would effectively starve the pathogen. Amazingly, in only two weeks she began showing subtle improvements. Granted these improvements were small yet they were the only improvements she had shown since her diagnosis more than two years earlier. The best part was that these improvements were permanent and we built upon them each day from then on. Nothing the doctors had prescribed or ordered provided any lasting improvements and now a simple, but drastic, diet change was producing positive results. For an overview of the diet I used visit: http://www.emphysema-treatments.com/diet.htm.

I pressed further into the area of alternative treatments finding prominent researchers that had essentially had their research covered up by pharmaceutical rhetoric. I found one supplement that restored her immune system, one that amplified her immune response and one that tore away the protective protein covering on each pathogenic cell. Even though the doctors disagreed with me, my treatments were working very well and theirs were not working at all!

I added additional supplements that restored my mother’s health to optimal levels. After 17 months on the restrictive diet and taking multiple supplements each day, my mother had recovered from emphysema and COPD completely! She regained all her lost weight. She could sleep through the night, she seemed coherent like she did 15 years earlier and she did not require any supplemental oxygen. The doctors were amazed yet still deny the progression of emphysema and COPD is a result of a pathogen introduced by smoking.

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When my mother was diagnosed with emphysema and COPD I began a 4+ year, 6500+ hour research endeavor. My function was not actually researching in a lab or with patients. Rather, I located information that had been either well hidden or had not been applied to the treatment of COPD and emphysema. My primary function once I found the information was curation, that is, sorting through the thousands of pages of data in search of anything that might help improve my mother’s condition.

What I found was rather surprising. First, I realized that the medications my mother had been given had compromised her health. The large number of antibiotics she was given had definitely compromised her immune system and therefore, her immune system’s ability for responding to invading pathogens. Antibiotics kill the bad bacteria which is their intended function. Unfortunately, they also kill the “good bacteria” or probiotics that are necessary for optimal health. Since probiotics make up a large portion of the body’s immune system they are essential when fighting off invading pathogens.

An article written by Dr. Mercola details the damage done to the immune system by antibiotics and warns of a particular antibiotic, namely Azithromycin (Zithromax) often used in treating chronic bronchitis and other lung infections.

I also read a book by Dr. Fred Pescatore, a New York City physician who developed an 8-step plan that cures asthma and allergies. Dr. Pescatore utilizes a high-quality, enteric coated probiotic in his 8-step cure which restores the immune system.

I immediately bought the probiotics Dr. Pescatore recommended and began giving them to my mother daily. I also utilized a rather restrictive diet that Dr. Pescatore recommends. I also found Dr. Kenneth Hunter, a Microbiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Nevada School of Medicine at Reno. Dr. Hunter uses the same restrictive diet in his successful cancer treatments which have been ongoing for more than 15 years.

My mother’s health began improving noticeably in about two weeks. The significance of these improvements was the fact that they were the first improvements she had shown since her diagnosis. The drugs she had been prescribed provided temporary relief from symptoms but nothing else. No healing or lasting improvements resulted from these prescriptions and my mother’s health had continued declining while taking them.

Although these are only the first steps, my mother eventually recovered completely from emphysema and COPD. The doctors, the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry claimed this was impossible. I believed them until I began seeing these improvements.

Once she had recovered I wrote a book about her decline and eventual recovery thinking others suffering with emphysema and COPD would benefit. Following is an excerpt on probiotics from the book.

Currently, science has established that approximately 70% of immune system cells reside in the digestive tract. According to Harvard Medical School,

“a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that you can treat and even prevent some illnesses with foods and supplements containing certain kinds of live bacteria. Northern Europeans consume a lot of these beneficial microorganisms, called probiotics (from pro and biota, meaning “for life”), because of their tradition of eating foods fermented with bacteria, such as yogurt. Probiotic-laced beverages are also big business in Japan.”

The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide states that,

“An estimated 100 trillion microorganisms representing more than 500 different species inhabit every normal, healthy bowel. These microorganisms (or microflora) generally don’t make us sick; most are helpful. Gut-dwelling bacteria keep pathogens (harmful microorganisms) in check, aid digestion and nutrient absorption, and contribute to immune function.”

Probiotics are probably one of, if not the most important supplement I gave my mother. They are instrumental in the production of red and white blood cells and are your body’s first line of defense against invading pathogens. If you have ever taken antibiotics, your probiotics are probably nonexistent and your body may have a difficult time fighting off pathogenic invasions whether they be viral, bacterial, fungal or even oncological (cancer).

You decide! Are the prescribed medications and treatments working for you? If not, you might want to consider some other alternatives. Many people try the diet for a few weeks and return to my web site for a copy of the whole book after they begin seeing improvements.

Here are a few video testimonials. More text-based appear on the web sites.

Emphysema Diagnosis

My mother was diagnosed with emphysema early in 2003. I had worked in a hospital more than 20 years earlier and knew the disease was considered terminal at that time. I hoped that in more than two decades the pharmaceutical companies had developed medications that would either cure emphysema or stop its progress.

Emphysema Treatment Begins

Immediately after my mother’s diagnosis she was given prescriptions for a number of medications she would take every day, some twice a day, along with 4 daily emphysema treatments with albuterol sulfate in the nebulizer.

Medications included Advair taken twice a day, Spiriva taken once a day, a prescription for prednisone every couple of months that would reduce inflammation and Combivent as a rescue inhaler for acute exacerbations.

Early on I realized these emphysema medications, along with the emphysema treatment with albuterol sulfate in the nebulizer, would temporarily relieve symptoms but as soon as the medication would wear off, my mother would be right back where she had started before taking the medication or performing the emphysema treatment.

Documenting the Progression of Emphysema

The progression of my mother’s emphysema was slow early on so her deterioration was not obvious day-to-day. I began documenting details of my mother’s condition on a daily basis, much like you would if you were working out and were interested in your progress over time. By doing this I could see the subtle changes in her condition. She was getting worse even though she was not smoking and she was taking all the emphysema medications and performing all the emphysema treatments that had been prescribed by her doctors.

Why Does Emphysema Get Worse After Smoking Cessation?

My biggest question was why was my mother’s emphysema getting worse? She had quit smoking and was taking all the emphysema medications and doing 4 emphysema treatments with albuterol sulfate in the nebulizer every day. I decided I would wait until my mother’s next visit to her doctor and ask him. Surely he would know what was causing this deterioration. It couldn’t be smoking; my mother no longer smoked! Maybe it was something left over from her 30 years of smoking. If that was the case, why weren’t they treating it or acknowledging it, for that matter?

Emphysema Progression a Mystery According to Doctors

On my mother’s next visit to her doctor I went with her into the treatment room so I could ask the doctor why her emphysema was getting worse so long after she quit smoking. When I asked him he first gave me some medical rhetoric about the genetic disorder called alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. I replied that him and I both knew my mother’s problems were from 30+ years of smoking not a genetic disorder. He then looked me right in the eye and said something that surprised me. He said that they did not know why emphysema got worse after smoking cessation. He said it was a mystery. I decided right then and there that I would continue researching emphysema, COPD, chronic bronchitis and anything else I could find until I either solved this big mystery or my mother took her last breath.

Researching Alternative Emphysema Treatments

Initially my research revealed nothing. I realized eventually that I had been looking at pharmaceutical web sites. Their web developers, those that designed their web sites, had worked diligently at covering all the keyword phrases used in researching emphysema, COPD and chronic bronchitis. Everything I found led me back to the pharmaceutical web sites that expounded the benefits of their emphysema medications, the ones that I had already realized only masked symptoms.

Treating Emphysema With Basic Pathological Principles

I began researching alternative medicine and alternative emphysema treatment web sites. I also began reviewing pathology. I had taken a graduate course in Pathology years earlier and remembered that, in general, all pathogens eat sugar. It seemed like there was some residual pathogen, left over from smoking, that was growing or proliferating in her lungs. Maybe I could starve this pathogen by taking away its food supply.

Granted, this was a long shot, but my mother had deteriorated down to End Stage Emphysema, weighed only 77 pounds and required 4 liters of continuous supplemental oxygen 24/7. I realized she did not have much time left. I also realized it would not hurt her if I took the sugar out of her diet.

Alternative Emphysema Treatment Begins Working

The next day I took all sugar out of my mother’s diet. Remembering Biochemistry I also removed any food that would break down to sugar in a few biochemical steps like potatoes and any grain products like bread and cereal.

This left only beef, pork, chicken, fish and vegetables on her diet. I purchased all the vegetables fresh and steamed half of them and put the other half in salads which we ate twice a day. The grocery store I shopped at sold a higher grade of meat that did not contain any antibiotics or steroids so I began purchasing that higher grade hoping it would also help.

Amazingly, in only two weeks this one little change, namely my mother’s diet, had caused noticeable improvement. The improvement was not earth shattering mind you. She was still on 4 liters of oxygen 24/7 but she was no longer gasping for air most of the time. She was sleeping close to 2 hours without waking instead of only 1 and she was eating more than twice the amount of food she had eaten only two weeks earlier. I didn’t realize it at the time but she wa gaining her weight back.

Complete Recovery from Emphysema

I continued researching emphysema, COPD and chronic bronchitis realizing not only did the emphysema medications and emphysema treatments not work, the pharmaceutical and medical industries were not doing all that could be done for emphysema patients. I was watching my mother get better with one simple diet change that had not been recommended by any of her doctors or other medical staff at the hospital.

I systematically attacked the two primary problems that plague emphysema patients which are excess mucus or phlegm and inflammation. I found supplements that actually provided permanent relief from these problems instead of the temporary relief provided by the emphysema medications and emphysema treatments.

I found a supplement that would amplify her immune response eliminating the need for additional prescriptions for antibiotics and found another that restored the normal flora in her large and small intestines. I gave her a supplement that slightly altered her body’s pH making it difficult for any disease to thrive.